"That's more than something." Jack nodded. "Some people would say it's everything." At the end of the day, the motivations of people like Jack and the people he worked with tended to boil down to one thing they had in common- they didn't want to see other people get hurt.

He took another drink. "So how'd you end up like this? Putting your life on the line for strangers, for money, for the SFDF. Is there a story there, or did you just do what you had to do?"